The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-07-28
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

now completed and trains run regu-
larly between Griffin and Columbus.
Willie Wingard the boy who shot
and killed E. Z. Thomas, his step
father in Savannah, has been SEN
fenced to four years in the peniten-
tiary.
Papers have been signed for new
hotel in Rome, Ga, to cost s125 900.
1t will be called the Armstrong
House, and will be FIVE stories high,
to be built on the corner Of Howard
and Court street.
II. Q. Wood, the confidence scamp,
who swindled several parties in Grif-
fin and married a young lady and de-
serted her, also practiced similar ras-
calities in Charleston, West Virginia.
He is wanted in other places also.
A negro man while SEEMING with
white man in the mill pond at Ar
nold's mill, on Little river, in Chero-
kee county, got into water about
twelve feet deep and was drowned
before he could be rescued.
Green w. Bateman, well known
farmer and citizen Of Pulaski county,
whose wife died a month or two ago,
was married again few days ago to
q Mrs. Price. This makes the fifth
time that the old gentleman has been
married.
The Porter Manufacturing Compa-
ny, near GAINESVILLE, are erecting a
$3.50, 1000 addition to their wooden mill,
to supply the increased demand for
their popular goods. Habersham
county is fast developing as manu-
featuring centre, possessing some Of
the finest water powers in the South.
Thirty-fve hundred crates of to-
matoes from the steamer City of Au-
gusta's cargo of 5000 packages OF
Savannah's garden truck" were
sent outside OF New York harbor on
Wednesday and dumped into the sea.
Meeting hot weather in rather ripe
condition made them not worth the
cost OF the freight.
Mrs. r. N. Graves, of GAINESVILLE,
was shot through both wrists on July
q by the explosion of pistol cart
ridge which had, in some way. been
swept into the fire. She also receiv-
ed wound in the neck and above
the eye by the fragments of she'll
Her arms are shot through, but no
bones broken. She suffered severe
ly at first, but is now more easy.
Near Flat Rock, in Pike county, a
cowardly and brutal attempt was
made to assassinate w. NJ. Gresham
on Tuesday night. Mr.. Gresham
when Jack Seagrayes crept up to the
window at the hour of midnight, and
pointing his gun at him, pulled the
trigger. The gun failed to fire, and
a citizen OF Pike escaped a horrible
murder in his own house and bed.
Sheriff Howard captured the Grimm
al.
Last Sunday evening Hilary Rich
ardson passed Mr.. Nliller's house,
about one and half mile below Pal
metto, in a wagon. As he drove
past the gate MIR. Miller's little
daughter, aged Il years, ran out, in
tending to jump on the hind part Of
the wagon and ride In some way
she made a misstep and her leg was
caught between the spokes of the
hind wheel and was literally torn to
pieces. Amputation was necessary,
This operation was performed Mon
day. She died Monday night at Y
o'clock.
In the Clerks Office at Lexington,
is a register of the amounts paid by
the citizens Of Oglethrope towards
the support of the Confederate gov
eminent Ii appears to have been a
subscription list and was dated July
l, 1862 The record is an obligation
whereby the subscribers agree to
give so many bales OF cotton to the
benefit of the Confederate States to
be delivered by the first of October
following. The amounts subscribed
varied from three to forty bales, and
We're mostly to be delivered at the
cotton factories. Some ofthe subscri-
bers, in their donation, stated that
"we will give our entire crop" 9TH
ers one-third, one-half, and so on.
There are over twenty-five pages of
names and the number of bales of
cotton aggregated must have been
fully five or six thousand, which, at
the price Of cottonat that time, would
have footed up quite 100000. The
list is valuable item Of history as
showing what one county in Georgia
alone contributed in funds towards
the struggle between the States
--~ss 5000